Pel's Head to Fort Worth For First Meeting of 2006

Published on May 30, 2006 under American Association (AA)
Pensacola Pelicans News Release


The Pelicans have been one of the hottest teams in the league over the past two weeks. They are winners of seven of their last eight games and currently hold the number three spot in the American Association's Southern Division.

Fort Worth is off to another good start this season and lead the Pelicans by three games, finding themselves second in the Southern Division. Last season the Cats clinched the Central Baseball League first half title early and are trying to do the same in the American Association. They have won six of their last ten games and are only 1.5 games behind league leading Coastal Bend.

Pensacola and Fort Worth finished last season as the top two teams in the Central Baseball Leauge with the Cats ahead of the Pelicans by 6.5 games. Pensacola won the regular season series against Fort Worth in 2005, 8-7. The two teams met in the first round of the playoffs and Fort Worth came out on top in a seires that went to a game five.

With the departure of El Paso's Juan Camacho, his contract was bought by the Chicago White Sox, the Pelicans boast the top two hitters in the American Association. Trino Aguilar leads the American Association with a .438 average while Tim Dorn is hitting .435. Fort Worth first baseman Jordan Foster is third in the league with 17 RBI and outfielder Tony Mota has stolen 10 bases, good for second in the league.

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